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#Kidlit Author Latest: A Flicker of Hope /Un Aleteo de Esperanza 🦋 Upcoming: Apapacho Love '26 Forest en Familia '26 Row Sow Grow '26 Hasta Pronto is a Promise '27 linktr.ee/cynthiaharmony
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Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

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Because young people dream, hope, and dare. I was one of them when I voted in my first presidential election in Mexico, my generation didn’t listen to the “adults” and ended a 70 yo corrupt regime. Young people hold change and stories can reaffirm and strengthen that truth.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

NYCers, turns out Schumer’s & Gillibrand’s offices are in the same building: 780 Third Ave., between 48th & 49th St., suite 2301 (Schumer) & 2601 (Gillibrand). See you there this week?

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

PEN America: Trump Administration’s EO, 'Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,' claims to undo indoctrination, but in fact enforces its own ideological conformity on public education and poses a serious threat to free expression in education. pen.org/press-releas...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

“President Trump issued an executive order to find out what education funds he can legally rescind based on curriculum he doesn’t like. Existing law already answers that question — nothing.” - California Dept. Of Education

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

What can you do about book banning? How can you support essential public institutions of democracy like public libraries and public schools? Want to understand why "school choice" is an outright lie? I've got OVER FOUR YEARS of those answers and more in this pinned thread.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Just saying that pressuring senators in both parties to take down Russ Vought’s nomination is a tangible “something” people can “do” to send a clear signal that this has to stop

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

Friends, A Flicker of Hope is an ALA Notable book!! #kidlit Thank you @wearealsc.bsky.social @devonholzwarth.bsky.social @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social @penguinschoollib.bsky.social www.ala.org/alsc/awardsg...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Authors Against Book Bans responds to the DOE statement supporting book banning in American public schools

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

In case you missed this quote:

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Book people!! Check this out about getting books to LA❤️

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

One of my favorite #picturebooks of 2024 (we read the Spanish edition) recommended! @elizakinkz.bsky.social @jesustrejo.bsky.social

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Amazing news! 🥳

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

A FLICKER OF HOPE wins an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book award!! And it was also included in the Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2024! 🎉 🎉 www.nsta.org/outstanding-... www.chipublib.org/news/cpl-bes... #kidlit

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

To complete the causal chain: 1) Writing/illustrating children's books is noble. 2) It's noble because it can lead children to become readers. 3) Readers benefit from reading. 4) Nations benefit from readers. 5) An electorate who reads freely and for pleasure is less likely to fall prey to fascism.

submitted 170 days ago • 4 comments

"...the website formerly known as twitter - is an absolute dumpster fire. I wouldn't participate in a pitch event on X if you paid me actual American dollars. The publishers who are still there are making a mistake and should STOP being there. For real." www.tumblr.com/literaticat/...

submitted 183 days ago • 1 comment

"Make being a book banner an unelectable offense, and we still stop seeing candidates use bans as a springboard for their own political relevance." Thank you for this piece, Maggie! #BanBookBans

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If you're feeling like Project 2025 is farfetched and won't reach fruition, I beg you to read this essay from Kelly Jensen about how the framework for it has been built under and around us for years. It's achievable bc facets of it have been ACHIEVED. wellsourced.substack.com/p/youve-alre...

submitted 225 days ago • 8 comments

Authors of critically acclaimed (but not best-selling) children's/YA fiction: Consider applying for PEN's Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Grant -- apps close 8/1 More info here: pen.submittable.com/submit/28910... A list of past winners here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN%2FP... ht @sn0vember.bsky.social

submitted 231 days ago • 0 comments

Oh so happy to see A Flicker of Hope included in this list, both audiobooks narrated by Victoria Villarreal in English and Spanish are absolute gems! And it was such a treat to get to record my own author's note! bookriot.com/compelling-n... #kidlit

submitted 257 days ago • 0 comments

Don't miss our IG live with @cynthiaharmony.bsky.social & Devon Holzwarth, Thurs., 5/2/24, 2 pm ET! A Flicker of Hope is a heartwarming story about migration and the power of family and nature, both of which know no borders: www.instagram.com/readyourworl... #ReadYourWorld #kidlit

submitted 302 days ago • 0 comments

@cynthiaharmony.bsky.social Your new Flicker of Hope looks spectacular! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ¡Felicitaciones!

submitted 366 days ago • 1 comment